Results of the day at the Mutua Madrid Open today, Thursday, May 6

Another vibrant day of tennis at the Mutua Madrid Open. Review the results of the matches played this Thursday, April 6 at the Caja Mágica. Paula Badosa stayed at the gates of the final after falling to number one Asleigh Barty, while Rafa Nadal and Dominic Thiem continue with a firm step on the clay of Madrid. Dominic Thiem was in charge of opening the day of this Thursday, May 6 at the Mutua Madrid Open. The Austrian tennis player faced Australian Alex De Miñaur on the center court of the Caja Mágica. Thiem, a finalist for Madrid in 2017 and 2018, beat the Australian in two sets, 7-6 and 6-4 in one hour and 51 minutes of play. The Austrian comes with hardly any filming and confessed after the meeting that he “ran out of breath” several times. Then, the women’s semifinal was disputed, for the first time with the presence of a Spanish woman. But Paula Badosa could not overcome the number one Asleigh Barty and ended up losing in straight sets, 6-4 and 6-3 against the Australian. The Catalan played a good game and played face to face but Barty was more decisive in the key points to get into her first final in Madrid. Badosa left the track visibly excited after doing a great week in the capital. Cheer up, Paula! 👏🧡😘 @ paulabadosa | #MMOPEN pic.twitter.com/bIOk1W6T9A – #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) May 6, 2021 Another Spanish-Australian duel was played in the center with Rafa Nadal and Alexei Popyrin as protagonists. Despite a brilliant start from the player from the previous one – he came to have a break ball in the Spanish’s first service, Nadal soon shut down the Australian and took the duel with a double 6-3 in one hour and 20 minutes party.On the other tracks, Christian Garín gave the surprise of the day by eliminating the second seed, Daniil Medvedev. The Russian has already confessed on more than one occasion that he does not like playing on clay at all and had his pluses and minuses with the court, the stands and even the chair umpire. He forced the third set but ended up losing to the Chilean with a result of 6-4, 6-7 and 6-1 in two hours and 29 minutes of the game. Before, on the same track, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario had sealed the place of the Kazakh Alexander Bublik after passing over the Russian Alan Karatsev with a result of 6-4 and 6-3.Tsitsipas and Rublev say goodbye to Madrid in the afternoon of this Thursday, two of the main seeds at the Mutua Madrid Open said goodbye on the same track – the Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – where Daniil Medvedev, second seeded, fell in the morning. The first, Andrey Rublev, who fell to John Isner – Roberto Bautista’s executioner on the previous day – in three sets with a result of 7-6, 3-6 and 7-6 in two hours and five minutes of the game. Stefanos Tsitsipas also said goodbye to Madrid when he lost in the next match against Norwegian Casper Ruud in two sets (7-6 and 6-4) in one hour and 33 minutes of play.In the night session, Alexander Zverev sealed the ticket to the quarterfinals after beating Briton Daniel Evans in two sets (6-3 and 7-6), to be measured this Friday with Rafa Nadal in the second round of the Caja Mágica center court.